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"graham" > wrote in message
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> On 25/03/2016 3:25 AM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>
>> "Bruce" > wrote in message
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>>>>> In Europe that's just a cucumber. Nothing English about them. Except
>>>>> that they have little flavour maybe
>>>>
>>>> True. When I was a child they were always sliced very thinly. I
>>>> never saw
>>>> the point. Since then I have learned to eat a chunk and they are
>>>> refreshing
>>>
>>> I'm still not a big fan. We always had cucumber chunks with Indonesian
>>> food when I was growing up.

>>
>> What is that like? They used to cut ours paper thin (skin on) and in
>> a dish with vinegar.
>>
>> I like mine peeled and just a chunk to eat with salt. Not that I do
>> that very often ...
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>>

> That takes me back to when I was a post-grad and a group of us would
> occasionally go to The Hallamshire, a pub on West Street, for a pint and a
> beef or pork sandwich. There was always a big bowl of cuke slices in
> vinegar and I used to load up my sandwich with them.


Aye them were t'days eh? )) Do you ever still make any?

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Default Janet talks about "those long English cucumbers."

On 3/24/2016 4:27 PM, NEMO wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:27:16 -0700, "Colon Edmud Jackass Burchese of
> Upper Michigan" > wrote:
>
>> On 3/24/2016 11:20 AM, NEMO wrote:
>>> On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 19:41:50 -0700, "Colon Edmud Jackass Burchese of
>>> Upper Michigan" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/23/2016 4:31 PM, Janet B wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know how they sell. Those long, shrink-wrapped English
>>>>> cucumbers smell funny and taste off. Every once in awhile I get a
>>>>> craving for cucumber during the winter and I buy one of those
>>>>> cucumbers. I think they are nasty. Since they are available
>>>>> everywhere, I have to assume that many people like them. I'm hoping
>>>>> the vinegar and oil salad dressing for tonight will cover the taste.
>>>>> Janet US
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Janet, normally these cucumbers are delicious. Perhaps you got the ones
>>>> Miss Recktum was using to dildo her colostomy hole?
>>>>
>>>> And remember this: a cuke a day keeps *******s away.
>>>
>>> When 'Pleasance' creeps up behind you, can you tell when it's a
>>> cucumber as oppposed to something else???
>>>

>>
>> Sometimes Pleasance has, in the past that is, taken certain "liberties"
>> with a cucumber.
>> Wot of it, you whore?

>
> Are you SURE it was a cucumber he was using??? LOLOK
>

He is a she, you warped harlot!
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